Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (d-real.ie)

What is d-real?

Multimodal digital media, across video, text, image, speech and Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) content, are rapidly reshaping our working and living environments. Seamlessly blending digital media and interaction within the physical world offers disruptive potential to enhance our effectiveness, efficiency and quality of engagement in everyday life.

The SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real) is an innovative, industry partnered, research training programme that equips PhD students with deep ICT knowledge and skills across Digital Platform Technology, Content and Media Technology and their application in Industry sectors. d-real postgraduate students will make research breakthroughs in areas such as multimodal interaction, multimodal digital assistants, multilingual speech processing, real-time multilingual translation and interaction, machine intelligence for video analytics and multimodal personalisation and agency.

Here you can find a list of the Ph.D. research at NUIG by d-real.ie students. Ph.D. Projects List (d-real.ie) 

2020 Cohort

d-real - Value-led design for personalized enhanced reality applications

Primary Research:
Siobhán Lenihan

Supervisor: 
Heike Felzmann

Description: 
Value-led design for personalized enhanced reality applications

d-real - A Multi-User VR Recreational Space for People with Dementia

Primary Researcher: 
Gearóid Reilly

Supervisor:
Sam Redfern

Description: 
A Multi-User VR Recreational Space for People with Dementia

d-real - Using digitally-enhanced reality to reduce obesity-related stigma

Primary Researcher:
Leona Ryan

Supervisor:
Jane Walsh

Description: 
Using digitally-enhanced reality to reduce obesity-related stigma

d-real - Multi-Lingual Lip-Synch – Text to Speech & Audio Representation

Primary Researcher:
Dan Bigioi

Supervisor:
Peter Corcoran

Description: 
Multi-Lingual Lip-Synch – Text to Speech & Audio Representation

2019 Cohort 

d-real - Digitally-enhanced reality (AR/VR) to reduce sedentary behaviour at home in an elderly population

Primary Researcher:
David Healy

Supervisor:
Jane Walsh

Description: 
Digitally-enhanced reality (AR/VR) to reduce sedentary behaviour at home in an elderly population

d-real - Privacy and ethical value elicitation in smartphone-based data collection

Primary Research:
Sarah Carter

Supervisor:
Heike Felzmann

Description: 
Privacy and ethical value elicitation in smartphone-based data collection

d-real - A VR social connecting space for improved quality of life of persons with dementia

Primary Research:
Aisling Flynn

Supervisor:
Dympna Casey

Description: 
A VR social connecting space for improved quality of life of persons with dementia

d-real - Advanced Facial Models for Rendering of Virtual Humans

Primary Research:
Shubhajit Basak

Supervisor:
Michael Schukatt

Description: 
Advanced Facial Models for Rendering of Virtual Humans